Humour. " The Value of Advertising."
11 Mb. Jones," said the reporter, '' I saw an advertisement in a mottling paper for the owner of an umbrella left in your saloon to call and—" •' That'll do. It's gone — and you'd better go, too," he suggestively added, glaring savagely at the reporter across the bar. 11 Great Jumping Joseph ! will they never stop coming ? " he asked, turning to the young man at the end of the bar. "You are the fortieth man who has called hero to-day about that miserable old cotton umbrella," he added, addressing the reporter. " There have been men here to»day for that umbrella who were never in my place iefore — lawyers', doctors, politicians, and divinity students. I'll never advertise another am* brella as long as I live," he said to the bar- i tender. — Philadelphia Times.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1893, 23 August 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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137Humour. " The Value of Advertising." Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1893, 23 August 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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